Video Capture/DVD production on Linux/Fedora
by xyzzy@hotpop.com
I just bought a card called the TVDVAV Combo (see:
http://www.papyrus.co.il/Products/tv_program_digital_video_analog_video_a...
... which looks pretty good but only seems to have software support for
Windows (of course :-(
I was wondering if anybody could tell me how I find out if Linux already has a
driver that supports this card/chipset.
Also, where can I find software that will allow me to capture from a VCR or
camcorder and then be able to edit the captured result, applying video and
audio effects (such as normalize, noise removal), and THEN create a DVD with
menus... does such software exist for Linux? FOSS definitely preferable.
19 years, 11 months
glibc errors?
by Francisco H Tapia
I tried installing the CORE2 off the DVD iso available via Torrent and
my install keeps erroring out on glibc common 2.3.3-27
I even ran the media check before the install? did I miss something?
the d/l I did was for i386, course I'm using an AMD III 400mhz on a Sis
board... could this be the problem??
thanks for any obvious pointers.
--
-Francisco
19 years, 11 months
For how long is Fedora Core 1 going to be updated?
by Preston Crawford
Asking because I read this list and it seems like FC2 is not entirely
stable. And the way the roadmap read was that FC1 wouldn't be updated
once FC2 was stable. I use FC1 and I don't want to exchange its
trustworthiness for what I'm seeing out of FC2.
Preston
19 years, 11 months
nss_ldap host resolving and kernel badness
by Herbert Gasiorowski
Something goes wrong when sendmail tries to resolve the nullclient
relay-host and nss_ldap is used:
The mail is not delivered to the relay-host (relay=[127.0.0.1] is logged!?).
If I change the /etc/nsswitch.conf line from
hosts: files ldap dns
back to
hosts: files nis dns
or put the relay-host in the files(/etc/hosts) sendmail has no more problems.
There is no different output from "getent hosts relay-host" whether nis or ldap
is used.
Using FC2 and nscd(as there some more problems with ldap host resolving)
for testing, I recognised that the machine stops for some time and a syslog
message appears:
Jun 1 15:07:46 <host> kernel: Badness in interruptible_sleep_on at
kernel/sched.c:1927
Finaly - after about 10 of these events - the host could not be handled
remotely: You could type in commands but there was no asnwer!
Checking the central loghost, all hosts with FC2 installed have some of
this messages ....
--
mfg
Herbert Gasiorowski
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gasi/
19 years, 11 months
Install success! (longish post)
by Lisa (TheAverageJane)
I read in here most of the day yesterday trying to find out what to
watch out for when installing Core 2. I saw nothing but much wailing
and gnashing of teeth so I figured I'd share my success with this
list...maybe it will tip the scales for somebody.
I've missed running Linux on the desktop for a long time now...I haven't
run it since Redhat 6. I first started messing with Linux with Redhat
4, so I have a long history of liking torture :p. Surprise, surprise!
No torture this time...here's my install success story.
I have a moderate home-built PC, about 2 years old. It's not the
bleeding edge, but works fine for me.
AMD K6 CPU 1.2GHz
Asus A7A266 mobo
Phillips CD RW
DVD drive (don't remember manufacturer)
384 MB ram
Creative Nvidia 36MB video card
hda (C:\): Western digital 40 GB IDE ST340823A
hdd (F:\): Maxtor 6GB IDE 90640D4
hda has Windows XP Home edition, Service Pack 1
hdd: This is where I installed Core 2. Was Windows formatted, had crap
on it. Poor thing was used as a doorstop at the job and sounds like an
electric can opener so I have no idea how long it will last.
Downloaded .iso files
Used Nero demo to burn to discs..4 of them plus the Recovery disc.
I did all my preparation. Folks, if you're a Linux newbie and want to
dual-boot, READ ALL THE DOCS YOU CAN! I know it's a pain, it feels like
a waste of time, but DO IT. PREPARE for disaster, 'cause you never know.
If you've got a fresh machine with nothing on it, then IMHO there's
nothing to lose and it can be fun to see just how far Redhat has come
with doing what I call a 'dummy' install. Put the install disk in and
see how easy/hard it is, if it's intuitive or not.
Back to my experience: I printed out reams of posts from here with the
fixes for the dreaded Geometry problem. Printed some stuff for grub
too. I read the bugzilla posts for the Asus problem but there's no fix
for it so I didn't bother to print anything. Downloaded recovery disks
for WinXP, dug out my installation disc for it also.
I went into my BIOS to check for the LBA thing but couldn't find it
anywhere.
Started install, picked the Personal install...got the Geometry problem
popup. I quit the install, followed the instructions from
fedora-devel-list (posted May 25 by Jack Aboutboul) to get
heads/cylinders/sectors info and restarted the install with the
parameters.
After all that I *still* got that damn popup saying I had the wrong
geometry :|. I sat for 10 minutes debating. I pressed 'Ignore'.
Install went through, rebooted...got the menu with both OS's on it! I
hurried to boot to Win, got it! Awesome! Reboot, started
Fedora...perfect! I'm happy as a pig in slop. Both OS's work fine,
plus! Bonus! There was absolutely *no* setup required for my cable
modem and service (Optimum Online, NY). Wasn't it always a trial to get
cable working with Linux? It worked outta the box, no hassles.
The mouse wheel works! Wow!
It seems the more I prepare for disaster (I spent literally all day
yesterday preparing, plus I made backups last week) the less I need all
the stuff I gathered.
I successfully installed amsn thanks to someone's post somewhere about
all the tcl/tk packages I had to install first. Thanks whoever you are,
you saved me from dependency hell.
I have no idea if the speakers work; I've seen people are having
problems with sound and playing CD/DVD's. I plugged the speakers in
wrong when I added the 2nd harddisk, so I'll fool with it today.
The boot is awfully slow, I have to find out how to speed it up some.
Fonts are atrocious. Blegh.
I'm sure I'll come up against other problems, but for now I consider my
Fedora install a raging success.
19 years, 11 months
smb:///sorry, could not display all the content......?
by chun lee
Hi there:
I have just learned how to browse my other laptop (MacOSX) in Fedora. I got
to the stage where I can display the content at
smb:///XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/chunlee
But I got a error when trying to access folders in the /chunlee. The error
says 'sorry, could not display all the content of "some_folder" '. How can I
correct this?
Also, it there a way to remember my username and password so that I don't
have to retype them whenever I make a move?
Many thanks
Yours
CHUN
19 years, 11 months
Re: Wireless Dlink USB on Fedora Core 2
by shaungcarter@charter.net
There's a really good howto at this page here.
http://julian.coccia.com/article-53.html
Keep in mind that the default .config shipped with the Fedora kernel works fine, you won't need a vanilla kernel.
>
> From: "Gaffey, Mike" <MGaffey(a)fastekintl.com>
> Date: 2004/05/29 Sat PM 07:23:08 CDT
> To: "'fedora-list(a)redhat.com'" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: Wireless Dlink USB on Fedora Core 2
>
> First, thanks for the help w/ my dual boot problem ... working great now!
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to get a dlink DWL-122 USB installed. I'm a
> bit overwhelmed with all the information available. I could use a quick
> list of everything that needs to be done and gotchas. From what I've been
> reading it looks like I need to install wlan-ng which involves rolling my
> own kernel or something which is a bit confusing because most of the info
> looks like it is for the 2.4 kernel and I'm running the 2.6 in a default FC2
> install ... how do I know which wlan-ng package to use w/ what kernel source
> and where the heck do I put all the stuff I'll be creating - there appears
> to be some confusion - maybe only in my head :) - in the various things I'm
> reading about where the FC2 kernel is located.
>
> It looks like if I get the kernel/wlan thing figured out, I need to install
> a driver from prism for the USB wireless device ... even this doesn't appear
> to be all that straight forward.
>
> FYI ... I've never messed w/ the kernel and have mostly used RPM packages on
> the old Red Hat distros for just about everything, so while I have managed
> to get Apache, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, Samba, etc working on Red Hat 7+ over
> the years, I'm still pretty much of a newbie when it comes to doing "nuts
> and bolts" kinds of things in linux, so explain it to me like I've never
> seen a computer before. There is tons of info on the web about just about
> everything Linux related, but for this particular problem I haven't been
> able to piece the various fragments of info together in a way that makes me
> understand how to do make this happen.
>
>
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19 years, 11 months
openoffice fails to display international characters
by LICHTENBERGER Janos
I have just installed FC2 and tried to use openoffice with different keymaps
(actually I tried Hungarian and Czech in detail). None of them works properly,
instead it yields funny characters if you press a key with ASCII code above
127. However if you copy e.g. an ö or é from another X application, the pasted
character is OK. The same happens in kde and gnome too. I have also tried on
different hardware (PCs), the result is the same.
Any openoffice apps works in the same (wrong)way. I attach an X window dump
showing some Hungarian characters. The correct ones are copied and pasted from
another window.
Janos Lichtenberger
19 years, 11 months
How to preserve users in new install?
by romildo@uber.com.br
Hello.
Currently I have Fedora Core 1 installed in my computer,
and I want to install Fedora Core 2. The problem isi
that I want to keep the same users that there is now.
Is there a way of backing up what users exists now and
their private data, and restore them after installation?
Note that I do not want an upgrade, but a new install
of the OS.
Is it enough to backup /etc/{group,passwd,shadow} and
/home/* before installation, and restore them afterwards?
Will the users will be back and functional after that?
Romildo
19 years, 11 months
Re: fedora core 1 fetchmail-6.2.0-8 bug?
by George Beranek
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 03:18:10 +0200
> From: Michael Schwendt <fedora(a)wir-sind-cool.org>
> To: George Beranek <gberanek(a)anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: fedora core 1 fetchmail-6.2.0-8 bug?
>
> On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:30:32 -0500 (CDT), George Beranek wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > [root@www cron.hourly]# rpm --query -all 'krb5*'
> > openafs-krb5-1.2.11-rh9.0.1
>
> That one is not from Fedora Core 1.
>
> > pam_krb5-2.0.5-1
> > krb5-libs-1.3.1-6
> > krb5-workstation-1.3.1-6
> > krb5-server-1.3.1-6
> > krb5-devel-1.3.1-6
>
> What does "rpm -V krb5-libs" give?
>
[root@www krbRPMS]# rpm -V krb5-libs
S.5....T c /etc/krb5.conf
> Somehow I think you have damaged/overwritten some libraries, e.g.
> libgssapi_krb5
openafs-krb5-1.2.11-rh9.0.1 only contains:
[root@www krbRPMS]# rpm -ql openafs-krb5-1.2.11-rh9.0.1
/usr/bin/aklog
/usr/sbin/asetkey
but verification non unsurprizingly yields:
[root@www krbRPMS]# rpm -V openafs-krb5-1.2.11-rh9.0.1
Unsatisfied dependencies for openafs-krb5-1.2.11-rh9.0.1: libcom_err.so.3
--
Regards,
George
19 years, 11 months